SOCIOLOGICAL

CONCEPT OF SELF
PART TWO
SOCIALIZIATIO
N
o is a process by which
people learn the
behaviors, attitudes, and
values that are
appropriate and
accepted by their culture
and community.
 SELF-
IMAGE
o Self-image is
how you perceive
yourself. It is a number
of self-impressions that
have built up over time.
L O O K I N G – G LA S S S E L F
The looking-glass self describes the
process wherein individuals base
their sense of self on how they
believe others view them. Using
social interaction as a type of
“mirror,” people use the judgments
they receive from others to measure
their own worth, values, and
behavior. CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
SELF-IMAGE HAPPENS IN THREE STEPS

1. Imagine how we appear to others.

2. Evaluate what must others think of us.

3. Develop feelings about ourselves based on

their impressions.
 SOCIAL SELF
The social self maintains that the
conception a person holds of himself
in his mind emerges from social
interaction with others. It holds that
the self is neither initially their at
birth nor necessarily at the beginning
of a social interaction, but it is
constructed and re-constructed in the
process of social experience and GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
activity.
REFLEXIVENESS
o Turning-back of the experience
of the individual upon himself --
which enable the individual to
take the attitude of the other
toward himself. That the
individual is able consciously to
adjust himself to that process,
and to modify the resultant
process in any given social act in
terms of his adjustment to it
 THREE STAGES OF SELF DEVELOPMENT

STAGE 1:  Born until the age of two.

The Preparatory Stage  Children mimic those around them

S TAGE 2:  Age two to six

The Play Stage  Children play pretend and do not adhere
to the rules in organized games like
patintero or basketball.

S TAGE 3:  Age seven onwards

The Game Stage  Children begin to understand and adhere
to the rules of games.
 S O C I A L C O M PA R I S O N
Self-concept and self-esteem are
heavily influenced by the process of
social comparison.
Social comparison occurs when we
learn about abilities and skills, about
the appropriateness and validity of our
opinions, and about our relative social
status by comparing our own attitudes,
beliefs, and behaviors with those of
others.